Data Continuity Group Implements Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX® vShape

"Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX® vShape makes us more agile as a company. It has increased our profitability and we can pour that extra money back into the business to help us grow. We also now have a single pane of glass through which we can manage the entire infrastructure."

Dave Ruddle,
Product Development Manager, Data Continuity Group

The customer

Data Continuity Group (DCG) has been a leading provider of Data Management and Protection solutions and services for well over a decade. Headquartered in Bracknell, the company manages data across 55 countries and is trusted by numerous organisations to protect their data throughout their entire global infrastructure. DCG is unique in that it focuses solely on providing bespoke and cloud-based backup, archive, storage and disaster recovery services. In order to deliver end-to-end solutions DCG can provide cost effective hardware procurement as well as a full portfolio of supporting services, including consultancy, professional services, implementation, customer service and 24/7 support from its own dedicated support centre.

The challenge

Data Continuity Group needed to update and expand its aging, complex server and storage environment with a more cost-effective, scalable alternative.

The solution

It turned to Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX® vShape, a virtualised, out-of-the-box solution consisting of PRIMERGY servers and storage, and migrated over 190TB of data and applications within four weeks.

The benefit

Flexibility and increased performance allow DCG to deliver more services than originally anticipated, leading to more revenue

Infrastructure investment has led to a 40 per cent reduction in operating costs, which can be reinvested in the company

The IT team has had 20 per cent of its time freed up which is now used for more proactive and strategic tasks

Inherent scalability makes it easy to add new customers and grow painlessly